FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 1956
Lion Matmen
In Heavy Drills
Wrestling Coach Charley Speidel is putting his unbeaten
matmen through heavy workouts in preparation for tomor
row night's match with the once-beaten Orangemen of Syra
cuse. Syracuse will arrive in University Park this afternoon,
and will work out T 3 .1 the Recreation Hall mats late today.
The match will egin at 7 p.m. and be followed by the
Penn State-Syracuse gymnastic'
meet at 8:30
The Lion freshman will leave
University Park at 1 p.m. today
for Annapolis where they will
meet the Navy yearlings tomor
row at 1 p.m. The frosh matmen
won their first match with Cor
nell in Rec Hall, but dropped a
decision to Lehigh in their last
outing.
Speidel was still undecided who
would start in the 147-, 157-, and
165-pound slots. But if past game
lineups are any indiCation, the
slots will probably be ;filled with
either Dave Adams, !Joe Hum
phreys, Ed Pasko, Ray Pottios, or
B. N. Thomas.
Speidel can use either Pasko or
Pottios at the 165 slot with Hum-
' Dick Lasse
May Face Oberly
phreys or Thomas starting at 155.
But if Humphreys is used at
_165
then Adams or Thomas will get
the call at 155. Adams can also
drop to 147.
Thomas can also move up to 165
if Speidel benches both Pottios
and Pasko. Another possibility is
John Pepe, who can wrestle at
both 137 and 147 pounds. If Pepe
wrestles 147 then Adams will stay
at the 155 slot.
At 177 and the heavyweight
positions Speidel has his "de
pendables"—Joe K r u f k a and
Bill Oberly. Both men are defi
nite starters, and will be relied
on heavily in tomorrow's match.
Probable opponents for Krufka
and Oberly, according to Orange
Coach Joe McDaniel, are Bill
White and Dick Lasse. But Mc-
Daniql, in the habit of juggling
his lineup, can also shove Marty
Lavanhar in the 177 slot and
Gerry Sprague in at heavyweight.
In the (lower weights Speidel
will probably use Sid Nodland
at 123 pounds, Johnny John
stone at 130 and either Hal By
ers, Earl Poust, or Pepe at 137.
These weights plus the 177 and
heavyweight classes give Spei
del the nucleus of his team's
strength.
While McDaniel appears to be
weak in the higher weights his
small men are considered strong.
He can use Wilkes-tourney winner
Don Clark, Ed Carlin, or , George
Creason at 123 with (either Carlin
or Creason able to wrestle at
higher weights., Bill Waples will
probably. start at 137.
TONIGHT
SATURDAY
The •
nnocents
. at .
Center Stage
8:00 P.M.
Tickets at the
HUB and door!
Four Soph Matmen
Four sophomores are numbered
among the top candidates for
Penn State's 1956 wrestling team.
The four are Dick Baker, of State
College; Jim Hedberg, of Oak
mont; Tom Kessinger, of Farming
dale, N.Y.; and Earl Poust, of
Muncy.
What's doing
at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft
Jet Engines Tested
in World's Most Complete
Privately Owned Turbine Laboratory
Located on the bank of the Connecticut River
at East'Hartford is a singular development facil
ity—the Andrew Willgoos Turbine Laboratory.
Here, behind windowless, thick concrete walls,
many types of engineers find a never-ending
challenge in the development and testing of
advanced aircraft engines.
Test methods used by Pratt & Whitney Air
craft in their tinique laboratory are highly com
plex. Tests are conducted on full-scale experi
mental engines at simulated altitudes up to
76,000 feet. Extremely high speed airflow, with
pressure and temperature accurately controlled,
duplicates speeds as high as Mach 2.75. To re
produce such prodigious flight conditions, ex
traordinary equipment had to be devised. For
example, a 21,500-hp driving dynamometer sup
plies the enormous power needed to test }et
engine compressors over a range of speeds from
800 rpm to 16,000 rpm.
The time lapse between development and
production of new engines is reduced consider
ably by the advanced facilities of the Willgoos
Laboratory. An outstanding example of results
achieved through concentrated engineering ef
fort and complete research support is the Pratt
& Whitney Aircraft J-57 turbojet. Today the
unchallenged leader in its held, the J-57 is
merely the forertumer of greater aircraft engines
that will power the preeminent military and
commercial aircraft of the future.
Sint refrigeration inns from Which cooditiesed sic is
piped to test cells ace located in the large actual me
dal!' of Wiligoos Laboratory.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
Gymnasts to Test Syracuse
Syracuse University's gym
nastic team, sporting a 1-1
record, comes to Recreation
Hall Saturday .night for its
encounter with the undefeat
ed Nittany Lion squad.
The meet will begin at 8:30 p.m.,
immediately following the Lion-
Syracuse wrestling match.
• The Orange opened their 1956
season by dropping a meet to
West Point, but came back strong
ly to defeat the Fitt gymnastic
aggregation.
Two of the Orange's biggest
point scorers—Lowell Meier and
George Satter—did not compete in
the Cadet meet, but were in the
lineup in the win over the Pan
thers.
Both Meier and Satter are con-
sidered to be two of the top tumb
lers in the eastern part of the
country, giving the Orange a po
tent scoring punch in the tumb
ling competition.
Undefeated Dave Hall is ex
pected to be the third Syracuse
entry in the tumbling event.
Paul Barkel heads the list of
the visitors' entries in the side
horse event. Barkel is a veteran in
intercollegiate gymnastic compe
tition, and is expected to provide
tough opposition for the Lion en
tries.
Chuck Luttinger is listed as the
other Syracuse entry in the side
horse.
Meier, Luttinger, and Tom Kon
deprias, a dark-horse entry, will
carry the Orange colors in hori
zontal bar activity.
Both Meier and Luttinger have
Audrew Nikes: Tedium Laboratory where jet engines and their components are explored.
Cooling water from the Connecticut River can be pumped through a maze Al conduits at
the rate of 160,000 gallons per minute 3 1 / 2 times the consumption of a city of half
a million people.
845 flying test-bed is shown here with an experimental jet engine suspended directly beneath
the bomb bay. Its regular engines are idled while in-flight performance of the turbojet is
observed and recorded. The perfect complement to the complex ground-testing facilities of
the Wiligoos Laboratory, the flying test-bed is another vital factor in reducing engine
development time.
PRATT & WHITNEY
DIVISION! OF UNITED - AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
MAST INANTIPORD S• CONNECTICUT
Engineers In control room of one of eleven test cells
at Wiligoos Laboratory reca•d important characteristics
of gas turbine engines in operation.
World's foremost designer
and builder
of aircraft engines
AIRCRAFT
had past collegiate experience on
the high bar.
Dick Shipley, Jack Hall, and
Bill Hageboom are listed as the
Syracuse entries in the rope climb
—one of the weakest events in
the team's lineup, according to re
leases from Syracuse.
Barkel and Meier will team up
to provide the opposition in the
parallel bars. Luttinger is also ex
pected to enter the parallel bars
event.
Konedprias, Frank Cipollets, and
Hageboom will most likely be the
Orange competitors in the swing
ing rings event.
. After Saturday night's meet, the
Lions travel to West Point for a
dual meet with Army Saturday.
Feb. 18. They return home the
following Saturday to test the
Middies of Navy.
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